{"id":392372,"date":"2026-04-10T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:24:08","slug":"super-mario-galaxy-movie-shooting-past-310m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392372\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Shooting Past $310M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATE, Friday PM: No major wide entries to shake the Earth before CinemaCon, but a very rich weekend that will keep exhibitors and studios in harmony next week. This is all thanks to the second frame of Illumination\/Nintendo\/Universal\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> which is posting $18.7 million Friday on its way to a $71M three-day total at 4,284 theaters, off 46% week over week. That will get the animated sequel voiced by Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Charlie Day and Anya Taylor-Joy and more to $310.1M by EOD Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we told you, 2023\u2019s Super Mario Bros had the second-best second weekend for an animated movie at $92.3M (a -37% hold). Currently, Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> has the seventh-best second weekend for an animated movie behind Inside Out 2 ($101.2M), Super Mario Bros, Frozen 2 ($85.9M), Incredibles II ($80.3M), Finding Dory ($72.9M) and Shrek 2 ($72.1M).<\/p>\n

\n\tSecond place remains the fourth weekend of Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Project Hail Mary with a $6.3M Friday, $25.5M 3-day at 3,817, off 20%, and running cume by Sunday of $257.5M. That cume, should it hold, will be 3% behind Oppenheimer at the same point in time on Sunday. That multi-Oscar-winning Christopher Nolan movie ended its domestic run at $330M, boosted further by myriad Imax and awards season rereleases.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s You, Me & Tuscany is seeing $3.2M Friday (includes $75,000K previews) for an opening of $8.3M at 3,151 theaters. Currently, Rotten Tomatoes audiences are more amore with the Halle Bailey and Reg\u00e9-Jean Page movie than critics, 94% to 68%.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson is looking at an estimated $2.5M today with around $7.6M\u2013$8M for its second weekend in fourth at 3,151 sites. At the high end, that\u2019s a -44% hold. Zendaya\u2019s previous non-IP pic, Challengers, had a second weekend of $7.6M, -49%.<\/p>\n

\n\tFifth goes to Disney\/Pixar\u2019s sixth weekend of Hoppers with an estimated $4M, after a $1.1M Friday at 2,850 theaters. Running total is $157M. Elemental ended its domestic run at $154.4M. <\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM: Universal\u2019s Halle Bailey and Rege-Jean Page romance You, Me & Tuscany did $750,000 in previews at 2,550 theaters from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. Thursday. The $18M production is only expected to file in the high-single digits this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Will Packer-produced movie comps to the previews of Sony\/TriStar\u2019s One of Them Days ($1.3M, $11.8M opening) and Angel Studios\u2019 Solo Mio ($744K, $7M opening).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe real news remains Illumination\/Nintendo\/Universal\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which is eyeing a second weekend between $60M-$70M. The sequel keeps all the Imax and PLFs screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chris Meledandri-produced animated feature made $8M yesterday at 4,252 theaters, off 9% from Wednesday, ending its week at $180M and putting its nine-day running total at $239.1M. At the low end of its second weekend, $300M is within range.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the week went as follows:<\/p>\n

\n\t2. Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 3,907 theaters, Wk $45.4M (-41%), Total $232M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\t3. The Drama (A24) 3,087 theaters, Wk $21.6M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t4. Hoppers (Dis) 3,290 theaters, Wk $9.2M (-24%), Total $153M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

\n\t5. A Great Awakening (RSA) 1,289 theaters, Wk $3.6M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE, Friday PM: No major wide entries to shake the Earth before CinemaCon, but a very rich weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,170424,270,170213,173801],"class_list":["post-392372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mario-galaxy-movie","tag-movies","tag-super-mario-galaxy-movie","tag-you-me-and-tuscany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}